Ecological Land Type

ELT 13b

Elevation Range
Minimum: 
1834 m
Minimum in ft: 
6018 ft
Maximum: 
2512 m
Maximum in ft: 
8240 ft
Median: 
2197 m
Median in ft: 
7208 ft
Soil Summary: 
dominant soils are shallow to moderately deep to bedrock, very flaggy sandy loam and flaggy loam surfaces over clays and very channery and flaggy sandy loams, no lime present, weak to strong development; unit dominated by Pima County soil survey map units 75 (Spudrock-Boriana complex, 10 to 35 percent slopes) and 77 (Spudrock-Lemmon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes). These units comprise 68% and 29% of the ELT, respectively
Geologic Materials: 
alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Catalina-Rincon igneous metamorphic complex (TXm) comprises 100% of the unit
Landforms: 
moderately to finely dissected, moderately to deeply incised mountain slopes (ridge lacks dissection)